FSA Warns About Growth Promoters

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Friday, 06 June 2003

The Food Standards Agency has told chicken producers, shops and supermarkets to own up to consumers when they have reintroduced growth-promoting antibiotics in the birds' food. Sir John Krebs, the agency's chairman, said that "on a precautionary basis antibiotics should not be used as growth promoters. Authenticity is important for both producers and consumers."
His remarks, which he had planned to make at the Cheltenham science festival on Wednesday, but accidentally omitted, were released by the agency yesterday as part of the text of the speech.
Richard Young, the Soil Association's policy adviser, said, "To have the Food Standard's Agency fighting on the same side is a very big step forward."

Source The Guardian via www.soilassociation.org